Lorraine Bracco credited as playing...
Dr. Jennifer Melfi
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: A lot of your circle must have done jail time. They can't be strangers to male-male sexual contact.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You get a pass for that.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Well, that's nice.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Well, what are you gonan do? There's no women there. You're there five, ten years.
- [pauses]
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Just for the record, my incarceration was very short term, so I never had any need for any anal... you know.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [referring to Vito] You didn't know he was gay?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [lying] Actually, I had him "pegged" him the whole time
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Is he a close friend?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Not only that, his one of my most valuable guys, his ambitious, his focused. When I was in the hospital, he helped Carmela tremendously with his strength
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You've implied you have millions of dollars: your hospital stay was actually that costly?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Well, no but the... huh? Is that the "issue"?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You tell me, what is the "issue"?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [adamantly] He's a fag!
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: and?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Now what I supposed to do?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: About what?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: I know, their born that way, right? It's not their fault. Frankly, I think they go about and they pity themselves
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I don't think they see it as a "fault"
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: In your circle, I'm sure you all kinds of gays, trans... whatever's of all stripes but not where I come from
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You personally, how do you feel about homosexuality?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: I find it disgusting: men kissing men, holding hands on the street. Every fuckin TV show they rub your nose in it but all that lesbian thing with Jennifer Beals, it's not bad. Is she a dyke in real life?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [when Melfi doesn't respond] I don't give too much of a shit what people do behind closed doors with consenting adults, don't forget, I'm a strict catholic. I agree with Senator Rick Santorum, he says if we let this stuff go too far, we'll be fuckin dogs
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I hear a lot of ambivalence
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: This guy got "outted." look, the guys that work for me are asking for head... his head, what the fuck? You know him and me, we're in the construction business and now some of these union old timers, the contractors, they're not gonna wanna be seen with him and I'm talkin huge deals: major fuckin dollars
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: A lot of your circle must have done jail time. They can't be strangers to male-male sexual contact
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You get a "pass" for that
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [sarcastically] That's nice
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: What are you gonna do? There's no women there. You're there five, ten years. Just for the record, my incarceration was very short term, so I never had any need for any anal... you know...
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: So, this fella who's been "outted", what's he saying?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [suspiciously] You think I'm lying, don't you, about when I was in jail?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I've given you no indication I think your lying
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: I suppose something inside me says "God bless", who gives a shit? I had a second chance, why shouldn't he?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: part of your new outlook?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Maybe?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I salute it then
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: It's a tall fuckin order, I'll tell you that
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: How so?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You can talk about everyday being a gift, and stop to "Smell the roses" but regular life's got a way at pickin at it. Your house, the shit you own, it drags you down, your kids, what they want, one bad idea after another. Trying to work a cell phone is enough to make you scream